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Saturday Night Showdown: Wallop vs. Torpedo

A recent mission enabled me to add to my current stocks with a visit to Utobeer. Put some beers outside (it’s turned a bit colder again at night in the countryside but 10 C is a good temp) and for no real reason decided to pit the Sierra Nevada Torpedo against the Victory Hop Wallop. [...]

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Christmas Beer – Ballards Wassail

Getting near the end of the Christmas Beer tasting and will try to do a wrapup. The label on this one is pretty cool with a Viking (Olde English) tale about where the word Wassail came from. This was a conditioned bottle bought from the well stocked Middle Farm in East Sussex.  I was also [...]

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Great British Beer Festival 2008 – report and checklist

The Beer Viking crew managed to get away from the sea long enough to attend the Great British Beer Festival in London back the summer – it was held 5-9 Aug 2008. However, during the long journey back home aboard our viking longship we lost the tasting list and our brew review notes. These historical [...]

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Poperings Hommelbier

Poperings Hommelbier is a Belgian ale brewed by Van Eecke. It’s a brewery homage to the hop harvesting community around Poperings. There are three types of hops used to make this but so far I haven’t been able to find what three. I sadly only had a 25cl bottle to try but from my first [...]

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De Dolle Brouwers arabier

While spinning some wheels before hitting a train, I dropped by utobeer and asked for some recs to help develop the Belgian pallete. arabier by the De Dolle Brouwers of Essen, Belgium was suggested (also twice by a couple of other punters there) and so it was a definite bring home. There’s viewing opions about [...]

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